Making a Murderer’s Brendan Dassey had already given away most of his prison property to other inmates when he received the shocking news that he has to stay in prison.

All he had left was a television which he had held on to because he wanted to watch the twists and turns of his case, his uncle Earl Avery told DailyMail.com exclusively.

‘He’s given away his food, everything,’ said Avery.

Dassey, 27, will have to stay behind bars while state attorneys appeal a decision to overturn his conviction, a panel of federal appellate judges ruled on Thursday.

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Doubt: Brendan Dassey (pictured in Manitowoc County Courthouse in 2010) was ordered released on Monday but he has been told he will now have to stay in jail for the time being

Dassey was due to be released by 8 pm. Friday a judge ruled earlier this week, but on Thursday a three-judge panel from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago reversed its decision around noon on Thursday.

‘It’s terrible,’ his grandmother Doris Avery told DailyMail.com. ‘That’s all I have to say.’

Dassey and his uncle Steven Avery were both sentenced to life in prison in 2007 for the rape and murder of photographer Teresa Halback two years earlier. Their case got international attention when it was featured on Netflix’s 10-part documentary Making a Murderer.

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‘He was going to live with his mother, everything was set up and now he has been given this news. We are all devastated.’

Dassey, who has been described as a perfect prisoner even earned his high school diplomacy while inside Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin, a two and a half hour drive from his home.

Earl Avery said he worried about the effect the news of the delay may have on his nephew. ‘He has done really well while he was locked up and this could affect him badly,’ he said.

In August, a federal judge overturned Dassey's conviction, ruling investigators coerced him into confessing. Wisconsin's Department of Justice appealed that decision to the 7th Circuit.

The judge on Wednesday ordered Dassey released from prison by 8 p.m. on Friday. The DOJ filed an emergency motion with the 7th Circuit hours later seeking to block the release.

A federal judge has ordered that Brendan Dassey be released from prison immediately but that has now been blocked. Dassey is pictured on the left, being led from Wisconsin court on March 3, 2006. He's pictured on the right in his 2006 police interview

Steven Avery, who along with Dassey was convicted for the death of 25-year-old photographer Teresa Halbech

Speaking after the latest ruling, attorneys for Dassey said they were 'disappointed more than words can say'.

Avery was sentenced to life without parole for killing 25-year-old Halbach on October 31, 2005, alongside his nephew Dassey, then 16, who at the time had a mental age of nine, and was interrogated by police without an adult present.

At the time of his arrest, Avery was suing Manitowoc County for $36 million over being wrongfully imprisoned after facing 18 years for sexually assaulting Penny Beersten.

Dassey had his original conviction quashed by Judge Duffin in August, who said investigators tricked him into a confession, but that ruling is being appealed by the State.

Theresa Halbach (pictured) was killed on Halloween 2005, after she visited the Avery family's salvage yard in Manitowoc County. Investigators allege Avery lured her there by asking her to take photos of a minivan

According to family confidant and prison campaigner Shaun Attwood, supporters have been thinking it's a 'foregone conclusion' that Avery will be set free because his lawyer Kathleen Zellner is demanding the court uses new forensic DNA testing methods, which she says will prove that Avery's blood had been planted in Halbach's Toyota RAV4 car - and is actually older than the vehicle itself.

High profile Chicago-lawyer Zellner has headed up Avery's legal team since Making A Murderer became a global Netflix sensation.

She specializes in wrongful convictions and, so far, has a 100 per cent success record, exonerating 18 innocent people.

She says that new evidence will not only clear Avery, but promises to reveal the identity of the real killer.

Yet, 47-year-old Attwood says that Wisconsin state prosecutors - led by Attorney General Brad Schimel - will do anything to keep Avery locked up and are armed with tens of millions to fight a 'dirty' legal battle.

The news of of Dassey's release order had been greeted with delight by his supporters, including his aunt Carla Chase, who wrote on Facebook: 'I want to thank everyone personally for all the continued support & fighting with us for months…

'The support that everyone has given has been awesome & we greatly appreciate everything. We consider you our extended family & we will try to keep you updated with the latest news coming in.'

His mother, Barb Tadych, admitted to the Daily Mail that he is a 'little bit of scared of going into the outside world' and the family will be 'starting from zero'.

WHAT IS 'MAKING A MURDERER'? Brandon Dassey's murder case was explored in the hit Netflix show

Making A Murderer was a Netflix crime documentary that aired in December 2015 and transfixed millions

Making A Murderer was a Netflix crime documentary that aired in December 2015 and transfixed millions.

Armchair detectives binge-watched as they followed the fortunes of two convicted killers Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey.

The show told how one man, Steven Avery, spent 18 years in jail for a rape he did not commit, only to be arrested along with his nephew Brendan Dassey for a still more terrible crime - just weeks after he filed a wrongful imprisonment case against police and prosecutors.

In perhaps the most shocking scene, viewers of the show had seen footage of officers pressuring Dassey, who has a mental age of nine, into a making a 'confession'.

The boy was also shown being bullied and manipulated by his own defense team.

Avery was the first to be charged with the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach, a 25-year-old who was last seen heading to take pictures of a vehicle at Avery's yard for a car magazine.

The story is told through police interrogations, recorded prison phone calls, interviews with family and lawyers and courtroom footage. There is no narrator.

While police were convinced that they had the right man - Halbach's burned remains had been found in a fire pit on Avery's property, and her car keys were discovered inside his mobile home - many believed he had, yet again, been framed.

Avery's blood was found inside Halbach's car, but then a vial of his blood from the previous case was found to have been tampered with.

The box in which it had been stored had the taped lid removed and a tiny needle mark was found in the top of the vial, suggesting blood could have been removed via a syringe and 'planted' at the murder scene.

Manitowoc police officers, who at the time were in the middle of being deposed in his wrongful imprisonment lawsuit, had been involved in gathering evidence in the murder case, and defense lawyers insisted they might have planted evidence to frame him.

It was, however, the 'confession' by Avery’s then 16-year-old nephew Dassey which proved the most damning.

The youngster who was 'deeply impressionable', confessed that he raped Halbach and saw his uncle shoot her dead.

He also admitted helping dismember and burn the body.

Dassey immediately recanted his confession, but it was too late.

He was convicted of first-degree intentional homicide, second-degree sexual assault, and mutilation of a corpse. Avery was tried and convicted separately.

In a letter written after his 2007 conviction, Dassey said: 'The investigators tormented me until I said what they wanted me to say.

'The investigators got into my head saying that if I confessed they would let me go, but when I did they locked me up. They tricked me. I was afraid of them back then.'

He called the trial a 'witch hunt' and added: 'The prosecutors don’t care what they do. They just want a conviction.'

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